...Luigi Battezzato The present paper discusses the (im)permanence of objects and memory in Sappho and Alcaeus in the context of archaic Greek poetry and of their reception in antiquity. After a methodological introduction, the paper analyzes several texts by Alcaeus and Sappho, with special attention...

...Andres Matlock This article considers the conceptual significance of relationality in Sappho. It argues that Sappho's poetry reconstitutes systems of relation by making evident exceptions to their explanatory capacity. These exceptions can be profitably understood through the rubric of the “event...

...Peter A. O'Connell By analyzing the parallels between Sappho's Brothers Song and archaic Greek songs of welcome, especially Archilochus fr. 24 West, this essay offers a new interpretation of the Brothers Song. It clarifies that ἔλθην in the first preserved stanza represents an original aorist...